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Desperate measures: Risks of compassionate use drug requests

11:00 AM ET Fri, 8 Aug 2014

Compassionate use is a way for companies to provide experimental drugs outside of clinical trials for patients with no other options, but sometimes drug makers say no to ill patients. Meg Tirrell explains why.